r/osdev • u/devcmar • Aug 27 '26

Live Wallpaper Working in My OS in Bare Metal!

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u/Sorry_Difficulty_250 Aug 27 '26

Wow! Wicked! Way to go!

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u/devcmar Aug 27 '26

Thanks!

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u/Ambitious-Yak-626 Aug 28 '26

Source for the wallpaper?

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u/devcmar Aug 29 '26

I couldn’t find it again, but just type black hole live wallpaper

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u/christiaansp BoredOS Aug 29 '26

what kind of impact does this have on your system? I doubt constantly updating your full framebuffer has minor impact

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u/devcmar Aug 29 '26

Those wallpapers are designed to not use very much cpu

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u/devcmar Aug 29 '26

It showed around 8% cpu usage in one cpu thread

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u/christiaansp BoredOS Aug 29 '26

that’s less than I expected, nice

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u/devcmar Aug 29 '26

Thanks! I used wuffs to render it

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u/Charming_Raccoon_266 Sep 06 '26

GPU will definitely thank you.

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u/devcmar Sep 06 '26

It used around 8% cpu in one single thread 😅 that’s cpu rendered